Animals make more or less the same sounds around the world, however those sounds are written in different ways in each language. The ways they are written reflect the ways people hear those sounds and represent them in writing.
Why do animals make different songs in different languages?
Animal sounds from around the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias#Animal_sounds
https://www.boredpanda.com/animal-sounds-different-languages-james-chapman/?media_id=animal-sounds-in-different-languages-james-chapman-4
http://www.daltai.com/discus/messages/12465/11445.html?1045840880
https://word.tips/dogs-cats-language-map/
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